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Blockading :: Blockading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blockad.

Scamillus :: Scamillus (n.) A sort of second plinth or block, below the bases of Ionic and Corinthian columns, generally without moldings, and of smaller size horizontally than the pedestal..

Scotch :: Scotch (v. t.) To shoulder up; to prop or block with a wedge, chock, etc., as a wheel, to prevent its rolling or slipping..

Tail :: Tail (n.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which it may be lashed to anything..

Blockheaded :: Blockheaded (a.) Stupid; dull.

Set :: Set (v. t.) To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure..

Hardhead :: Hardhead (n.) Block's gurnard (Trigla gurnardus) of Europe.

Swilled :: Swig (v. t.) To pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat.

Leader :: Leader (n.) A block of hard wood pierced with suitable holes for leading ropes in their proper places.

Blockhead :: Blockhead (n.) A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.

Block Book :: Block book () A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable types.

Cry :: Cry (v. i.) The crackling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth.

Sheave :: Sheave (v.) A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley..

Stumblingly :: Stumbling-block (n.) Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error..

Blockage :: Blockage (n.) The act of blocking up; the state of being blocked up.

Stock :: Stock (n.) The support of the block in which an anvil is fixed, or of the anvil itself..

Plinth :: Plinth (n.) In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column..

Plane :: Plane (a.) A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate..

Chisel :: Chisel (v. t.) To cut, pare, gouge, or engrave with a chisel; as, to chisel a block of marble into a statue..

Noodle :: Noodle (n.) A simpleton; a blockhead; a stupid person; a ninny.

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